Shreveport Citizens Disarmed By Police For 2nd Amendment Bumper Stickers - Page 2

**tadams** · 07-10-2009, 07:34 PM

**PapaB** · 07-10-2009, 11:39 PM

If it's true, someone in Louisiana should contact the AG

**cybernorris** · 07-11-2009, 09:58 AM

I lived in Shreveport 6.5 years... with a carry permit for half of that. An interesting point in this ... LA grants your car the same right of privacy as your home.

I believe Cedric Glover may have been involved in a gun buy-back program in the mid-90s. He was a nice guy and, though liberal, was not a nut case.

When I moved to Shreveport in 1990, it had one of the highest per-capita homicide rates in the US. There was (and probably still is) an extraordinary amount of gang violence. It's a city where in certain neighborhoods people took to sleeping on the floor so they would be less likely to be shot by stray bullets.

My mother in law still lives there. I will visit there again, but will only go armed. I will never live there again.

**DaveTN** · 07-12-2009, 12:24 PM

Did they take control of the weapon during the stop, or did they confiscate it from him and keep it?
Most states don’t recognize the 2^nd amendment; that is no surprise. But it sounds like they trampled all over his first amendment rights also.

**cybernorris** · 07-12-2009, 01:16 PM

The original slant of the story/complaint is not accurate. As I read more details, the officer took control of the weapon and returned it upon releasing the guy.

Louisiana State Police have published the following directions to CHP holders:

Quote:

The permit shall be retained by the permittee who shall immediately produce it upon the request of any law enforcement officer. Anyone who fails to do so shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars. Additionally, when any peace officer approaches a permittee in an official manner or with an identified purpose, the permittee shall:

Notify the officer that he has a weapon on his person;
Submit to a pat down;
Allow the officer to temporarily disarm him.

I think Cedric (I've spent time with him, so I feel comfortable using his first name), handled the phone call pretty well. It might have been best for him to not describe what happened as suspending any constitutional rights. He would have done much better if he had known the rules and merely quoted the directions above.

I still won't go back there without a gun.

07-10-2009, 11:39 PM	#12 (permalink)
PapaB TGO Member Joined: May 2008 Where: Gainesboro, TN Age: 58 Posts: 282	If it's true, someone in Louisiana should contact the AG __________________ Are we at last brought to such a humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our own defence? Where is the difference between having our arms in our own possession and under our own direction, and having them under the management of Congress? If our defence be the_real_object of having those arms, in whose hands can they be trusted with more propriety, or equal safety to us, as in our own hands? Patrick Henry http://patrioticwisdom.net

07-12-2009, 12:24 PM	#14 (permalink)
DaveTN TGO Senior Member Joined: Apr 2007 Where: Murfreesboro, TN Posts: 2,666	Did they take control of the weapon during the stop, or did they confiscate it from him and keep it? Most states don’t recognize the 2^nd amendment; that is no surprise. But it sounds like they trampled all over his first amendment rights also. __________________ **Diligentia Vis Celeritas Accuracy: You must hit your assailant in order to injure him. Force: You must strike your opponent with sufficient force to incapacitate him. Speed**: You must strike him quickly, in order that your opponent does not injure you before you injure him.

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07-10-2009, 07:34 PM	#11 (permalink)
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07-11-2009, 09:58 AM	#13 (permalink)
cybernorris TGO Member Joined: May 2009 Where: Tullahoma, TN Posts: 214	I lived in Shreveport 6.5 years... with a carry permit for half of that. An interesting point in this ... LA grants your car the same right of privacy as your home. I believe Cedric Glover may have been involved in a gun buy-back program in the mid-90s. He was a nice guy and, though liberal, was not a nut case. When I moved to Shreveport in 1990, it had one of the highest per-capita homicide rates in the US. There was (and probably still is) an extraordinary amount of gang violence. It's a city where in certain neighborhoods people took to sleeping on the floor so they would be less likely to be shot by stray bullets. My mother in law still lives there. I will visit there again, but will only go armed. I will never live there again.